The perfect classical half hour
Episode m0027lkn, broadcast at Friday 14th February 2025, 7:00pm.
“An engaging mix of classical music for half an hour, featuring chamber music by Henri Bertini and Giovanni Gabrieli, as well as an ode to love from Dowland’s First Booke of Songes or Ayres, plus the sublime voices of Anne Sofie von Otter and Stephanie D'Oustrac in a perennial favourite by Offenbach”
Track listing
- 0:50 – Nonetto in D Major, Op. 107: III. Scherzo. Prestissimo risoluto (track 103, Bertini: Nonetto in D Major, Op. 107 & Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 43 "Grand")
- Ensemble Linos Ensemble
- Composer Henri Bertini
- 5:27 – Come again, sweet love doth now invite
- Composer John Dowland
- Performer David Mayoral
- Music Arranger Rainer Seiferth
- Ensemble Tracea
- 10:27 – Barcarolle (The Tales of Hoffmann) (track 8, Anne Sofie von Otter sings Offenbach)
- Conductor Marc Minkowski
- Composer Jacques Offenbach
- Orchestra Les Musiciens du Louvre
- Singer Anne Sofie von Otter
- Singer Stéphanie d'Oustrac
- Choir Chœur des Musiciens du Louvre
- 14:23 – Canzone a tre cori
- Composer Giovanni Gabrieli
- Conductor Dennis Russell Davies
- Orchestra Orchestra della Svizzera italiana
- Music Arranger Bruno Maderna
- 19:45 – The Silence of love (from The Shape of Water)
- Conductor Alexandre Desplat
- 21:16 – A Hermit Thrush at Eve, Op. 92 No. 1 (track 6, The bright day is done)
- Composer Amy Beach
- Performer Finghin Collins
- 26:44 – If Love Now Reynyd (track 6, AVIE: AV2352)
- Ensemble Taverner Players
- Composer King Henry VIII of England
- Conductor Andrew Parrott
- Choir Taverner Choir
- 28:15 – The man I love (The George Gershwin Songbook for piano) (track , Gershwin/Kern etc: That certain feeling: Richard Rodney Bennett)
- Composer George Gershwin
- Performer Richard Rodney Bennett